Nagra has divested its SmarDTV business. The firm announced during the first quarter of 2018 that it was looking for a buyer; in Neotion – the French conditional access vendor – Nagra has found one. Neotion will acquire SmarDTV’s conditional access module (CAM) and pay TV set-top box assets, while Nagra will retain SmarDTV’s plants in the UK and France, as well as SmarDTV’s entire patent portfolio. The USD 20m transaction hinges upon Nagra’s licensing the SmarDTV patents to Neotion, and to Neotion’s newly created SmarDTV Global affiliate.

This report evaluates the top content security providers who are active in the pay TV industry on criteria spanning market share, deployment and footprint, content security focus, and product capability.

This market report gives a high level overview of the global Conditional Access and CAM markets, with shipment and revenue data, regional and platform level discussion, and vendor market share information.

International software provider Microsoft is to launch a new IPTV and over-the-top (OTT) platform for all operations of international telco Telefonica. The platform, a Telefonica-specified variant of Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform, will be termed the...